Specialist: Programme and Project Management
Road Accident Fund · Gauteng
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Job Posting End Date: 27 Oct 2026
Key Performance Areas
Reporting
- Prepare and submit regulation reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
- Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.
- Prepare proposals, briefings, presentations, reports, and other documentation and provide management information both verbally and in report format.
Project Management
- Define project plan and scope.
- Develop full-scale project plans.
- Manage project budgets.
- Prepare governance documents, the planning and execution thereof.
- Maintain project artefacts.
- Proactively manage changes.
- Facilitation of project meetings and administration.
- Plan and set priorities for all elements of the project.
- Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions.
- Monitor and report on status of project efforts.
Compliance and Risk Management
- Plan proactively to mitigate project risks and report on all issues and risks.
- Compliance with policies and procedures.
Management Oversight
- Responsible for managing, planning, scheduling, estimating, controlling and delivering all activities for projects.
- Direct and manage project teams, including performance
- Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
Policy Review and Implementation
- Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
- Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.
Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with the stakeholders to ensure proper engagement.
- Create project awareness throughout the Fund through various engagements with RAF employees.
- Engage with relevant internal stakeholders during programme delivery.
- Delegate enquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Project Management/ ICT related qualification.
- Certification in Project Management Methodology Prince2/ PMBok/ Agile will be an added advantage.
- Relevant 5 - 7 years' experience in managing projects.
- Experience in Managing Transversal Projects.
- Experience in Insurance/ Financial Services/ Information Technology project management environment
- Experience in project management tools.
Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required
- Resilience.
- Network and alliance.
- Employee engagement.
- Ethics and values.
- Change management.
- Critical and innovative thinking
- Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
- Risk Management.
- Stakeholder development and relations.
- Reporting.
- Ability to turn projects that are struggling around.
- Exposure to Agile project Management.
- Strong analytical skills quantitative and qualitative.
- Customer focused and work well under pressure and tight deadlines.
- High degree of self-awareness.
- Familiarity with enterprise Project Management tool.